Abandoned subway stations

Last week, news broke that the Boring Company, one of Elon Musk's pet projects which he claims will be the cure for traffic and road congestion in the near future, will be scrapping their plans to dig out a tunnel which would have run parallel to Sepulveda Boulevard. According to multiple reports, the decision was reached after the Musk-led company was locked in a legal battle with local activists, just six months after getting permits to build the tunnels. Now that the 4.4 km Westside tunnel has been scrapped, the company will be digging a tunnel that connects to the Dodger Stadium instead of the other side of LA. The local activists argued that the city of LA was allowing the Boring companyto evade a review process that included environmental impact studies. These are known to take a long time to complete and the city allegedly circumvented this, allowing the Boring Company to go ahead with the digging. In spite of the company claiming that the Sepulveda tunnel is only a … [Read more...] about Elon Musk’s Boring firm abandons tunnel in LA amid complaints but to open way to Dodger

A monster rat apparently chased an MTA worker out of her station booth in Brooklyn over the weekend, leaping on top of papers and scurrying over a keyboard as the person wielding the camera shakes in fright, video shows. In footage the group Progressive Action posted to its Twitter account late Sunday, the rodent is seen racing around on a small desk, where papers appear to have been hurriedly abandoned, in the station booth at the Grand Street Manhattan-bound L train stop the day before. As the camera quivers, the rat is seen leaping from surface to surface, scampering up behind a computer, then emerging and running across another tabletop. Then it disappears. Top News: Mourning for George H.W. Bush's and More Jim McGrath via Twitter "Where'd he go?" is heard on the video, as the video shooter madly pans around outside and inside the booth looking for the rat. Then the camera holder steps cautiously into the booth and focuses in ominously on a green … [Read more...] about Monster Rat Appears to Chase MTA Worker Out of Subway Station Booth, Video Shows

FIVE metro stations in Kiev were evacuated following a bomb scare earlier today, reports claim. Passengers were ordered to abandon trains in two suburbs of the Ukrainian capital which is hosting the Champion's League final tonight. The subway stations were reopened when the incident was declared a "false bomb warning", according to the BBC Ukraine. An anonymous call warning police there were bombs at the five stops initially triggered panic. The stations were Hydropark, Dnipro, Hero Dnipro, Arsenal and Left Bank stops, Kiev police confirmed. "The stations were checked and open for passengers," cops later said. "No explosive items were detected." Kiev is expected to host 100,000 foreigners for the big showdown between Liverpool and Real Madrid today. They of course include thousand of Reds who are hoping there team will secure the team's sixth Champions League trophy. Mayor Vitali Klitschko - the former heavyweight boxing champ - said his riot cops are primed for trouble. He said: … [Read more...] about Five Kiev underground stations closed and passengers evacuated in security alert ahead of Champions League final

Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Michael Levenson Globe Staff May 21, 2018 The hottest ticket in town is 30 feet underground.For the first time since the Kennedy administration, the city of Boston is inviting the public to tour an abandoned subway tunnel beneath City Hall Plaza on Monday, giving 100 lucky residents the chance to tromp through a 300-foot subterranean railway passage that opened in 1898 and closed in 1963.Free tickets to the event were made available last week to celebrate Preservation Month and were scooped up in about 27 minutes, said Joe Bagley, the city archaeologist. The link to reserve tickets has since been clicked on more than 12,000 times, he said. “As viral as preservation can go, it went viral,” Bagley said. Advertisement But fear not, urban spelunkers and connoisseurs of dark caverns: Bagley said the city hopes to offer more tours in the future, perhaps … [Read more...] about Tours of abandoned subway tunnel under City Hall offer glimpse of Boston’s past

Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Cristela Guerra Globe Staff May 16, 2018 Beneath the brutalist structure of Boston City Hall is a dusty abandoned train tunnel that was once a part of America’s first subway line, the Tremont Street Subway. On May 21, in honor of Preservation Month, 100 people will have the rare opportunity to tour the cavernous space, which was in operation from the end of the 19th century to the early 1960s.The Boston Landmarks Commission and city’s Archaeology Program worked for several months to make the tours happen, but city archeologist Joe Bagley said they never expected such an outpouring of interest. Advertisement Bagley posted the free events on social media at noon on Tuesday, and within half an hour, all five 20-minute tours were full. Over the next 24 hours, thousands more clicked on the link. Get Fast Forward in your inbox: Forget yesterday's … [Read more...] about 5 facts about the abandoned T tunnel under City Hall Plaza you may get a chance to tour